Henry Flagler was the original architect of South Florida, but Jorge Pérez is arguably the biggest modern contributor. Since Pérez founded the Related Group in 1979, it has built 80,000
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The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 shows how difficult searches can be, but making them easier is a daily job at one of the oldest manufacturers in South Florida.
Read MoreUncertainty is the watchword for South Florida’s community banks as they grapple with the banking reform regulations resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank already has more than 5,000 pages of
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“The one thing I was most impressed by when I did my due diligence is where they sourced their products. The apricot and pineapple are sourced from Australia. They are
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Regent Bank Chairman and CEO Cyril S. “Sid” Spiro is ready for growth after raising $20 million in capital. The Great Recession whacked Regent’s customer base of small and medium-sized
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I was under the impression that once you decide to start a family, you toss the birth control and give it the “old college try.” BAM! There you are in
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For decades, Butch Buchholz was known for promoting tennis on Key Biscayne, but now he’s on his third year of building community support for the WGC-Cadillac World Golf Championship at
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One just had the first IPO this year on the New York Stock Exchange. One assembled sites for some of the most luxurious hotels on Fort Lauderdale’s beach. One takes
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Gerard van Grinsven has gone from serving up drinks as a bartender to serving up innovation as a CEO in health care. Sounds incongruous? The career thread for the current
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The awards, which were inaugurated in 2014, celebrate the success of leaders in the categories of chairman/chairwoman, CEO, president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer, chief marketing
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As SFBW counts down the days to the Apogee Awards celebration on Oct. 21 at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, we’ll have biographies about the winners in each
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In August 2001, Maria Merce Martin and her family moved from Venezuela to Weston, Florida, trying to escape horrific violence in their native country and joining thousands of others fleeing
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